Utah’s rate of new COVID-19 cases fell to its lowest point since April over the past week, with 1,881 new cases in the seven days ending Sunday.
Utah ranked 44th among states where the coronavirus spread the fastest, according to research by the USA TODAY Network of data from Johns Hopkins University.
The downward trend according to the effects found at the national level, with the US being in the U. S. The U. S. Department of Health reported a low of 19. 4% in new cases over the same seven-day period. Utah, which represents 0. 96% of the U. S. population, is a major in Utah. In the U. S. , it accounted for 0. 58% of the country’s new cases.
The Southwest Utah Health District, which includes Washington, Iron, Kane, Garfield and Beaver counties, had a rate of 5. 4 new cases consistent with 100,000 residents, the lowest rate in the region since mid-April. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the region has counted only about 70,000 cases, with more than 3,400 hospitalizations and 678 deaths attributed to the virus.
Statewide, the worst weekly outbreaks per user occurred in San Juan County with 78 cases per 100,000 per week; Salt Lake County with 70; and Davis County with 61. The Centers for Disease Control says the highest levels of network transmission start at 100 instances per 100,000 per week.
Salt Lake County, with 813 instances, added the maximum number of new instances overall; Utah County, with 268 instances; and Davis County, with 217.
Statewide, another 10 people were reported dead from COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday, the same number of deaths as reported the week before.
A total of 1,038,416 more people in Utah have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and another 5,021 people have died from the disease, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In the United States, 96,397,885 more people tested positive and 1,059,605 other people had died.
USA TODAY analyzed information from federal hospitals through Sunday, Oct. 2.
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Hospitals in 17 states reported more COVID-19 patients than the previous week, while hospitals in 25 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive care beds. Hospitals in 17 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the past week than the week before. according to USA TODAY’s research on U. S. fitness and human data. U. S.
David DeMille writes about southwestern Utah for The Spectrum